Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd

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An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.

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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd

An exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.
Janet Todd was born in Wales and grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Sri Lanka. She has worked in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, Scotland and England. In the US, at the University of Florida and Douglass College, Rutgers, she began the first journal devoted to women s writing. She has published on the novel and memoir and written biographies of Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters Fanny and Mary Shelley, and the Irish Lady Mount Cashell. A Professor Emerita at the University of Aberdeen and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Janet Todd is a former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she established the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She has published two novels: Lady Susan Plays the Game and A Man of Genius. She lives in Cambridge and Venice."
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ISBN 13 9781909572065
ISBN 10 1909572063
Title Aphra Behn: A Secret Life
Author Janet Todd
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Fentum Press
Year published 2017-06-01
Number of pages 608
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.